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Letters received by the office of Indian Affairs 1824-81. Roll 491. Montana Superintendency, 1864-1880

Letters Received by the Office of Indian Affairs 1814-81 Roll 491 Montana Superintendency, 1864-1880

Letters received by the office of Indian Affairs 1824-81. Roll 491. Montana Superintendency, 1864-1880

Description

Selected microfilm reels of letters, reports, and other papers concerning Indian populations, education, health, agriculture, subsistence, warfare, land transactions, annuities, depredations, claims, traders, agency employees and administration, and other aspects of the federal government's relations with Indian tribes under the administration of various agencies and superintendencies. The files selected pertain primarily to the Assiniboin, Bannock, Blackfeet, Blood, Flathead, Grosventure, Kutenai, Pend d'Oreille, Piegon, Shoshoni, Sioux, and other tribes of the Mountain Plains area.

Creator

United States. Office of Indian Affairs. Montana Superintendency.

Genre (Short List)

letters

Type

Text

Language

eng

Date Original

1959

Subject

Indians of North America; Indians of North America -- Government relations -- 1789-1869; Indians of North America -- Government relations -- 1869-1934

Contributors

United States. Office of Indian Affairs. Blackfeet Agency; United States. Office of Indian Affairs. Fort Belknap Agency; United States. Office of Indian Affairs. Fort Peck Agency; United States. Office of Indian Affairs. Lemhi Agency; United States. Office of Indian Affairs. Milk River Agency

Contributing Institution

The University of Montana

Publisher

Washington, [D.C.] : The National Archives, National Archives and Record Service, General Services Administration

Geographic Coverage

Montana

Digital Collection

Mountain-Plains Native Americans

Digital Format

image/jpeg

Digitization Specifications

Scanned from microfilm to master TIFF files at 300 PPI, 8 bit grayscale using a Mekel Mark V microfilm scanner. Derivative images were created using PhotoShop CS4. OCR was performed on images using Abbyy FineReader 10 corporate edition.